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A graduation, whether it be from high school or from college, is a momentous occasion in a person’s life and graduation quotes are a wonderful way to reflect on how special graduation day really is. These 14 graduation quotes do a great job of capturing what every graduate should understand and remember on this memorable day.

1. “There is a good reason they call these ceremonies commencement exercises. Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.” ~ Orrin Hatch

2. “You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.” ~ Tom Brokaw

3. “The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.” ~ Robert Orben

5. “At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.” ~ Paul Freund

6. “During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. “Absolutely,” the professor said. “In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello. “I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.” ~ Joann C. Jones

7. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~ Aristotle

8. “Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus

9. “The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things — the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.” ~ Samuel Johnson

11. “Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.” ~ Arie Pencovici

12. “The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.” ~ Russell Green

Long and short, funny and emotional — some of the most inspiring and thought-provoking words have been spoken at graduations. These graduation quotes remind us that being educated means more than learning what was in the textbooks and that, even after graduation, one’s education really never ends.

If you want to understand the meaning of your dreams and discover many things you ignore, not only about yourself as well about the entire world and your future, you have to learn the dream language.

Everything that appears in your dreams has a symbolic meaning. You have to try to understand the dream message based on the meaning of the symbols that appear in a dream.

Here is a short scientific dictionary I have prepared for you in order to give you an idea about the symbolic dream language that you have to learn by studying, the same way you learn any foreign language based only on words. The dream language is based on images, which you have to translate into words, so that you may understand all the messages of the unconscious mind that produces your dreams.

Thanks to my research and my findings continuing the research abandoned by Carl Jung through dream interpretation today we know that:

1. All our dreams have a protective character. We are protected from the wild side of our conscience, which is demonic and tries to destroy our human side.

2. Our dreams reflect the mistakes of our under-developed and one-sided human conscience, which is too far from perfection and balance and has to be completely developed.

Try to understand the dream logic, having in mind that your dreams are giving you information about the anti-conscience, your wild side, and basically showing you the mistakes you are making, so that you may correct your behavior and do only what will be good for you.

Here is a list with a few of the most common dream symbols and their translation:

Baby: It represents a sin, a serious moral mistake. The woman who has the baby in the dream is making serious moral mistakes in her life or will be tempted to make them in the future.

Death: Whoever dies in the dream is a part of the person’s personality that has the same characteristics of the person that appears dead. Real information about dead people in dreams is given only to those that are too attached with the dead person.

Lion: It represents a person that is too possessive and demanding. Your dreams will give you information about other people using animals to define their personality.

Snake: It represents a painful and difficult experience that will prevent you from repeating the same mistakes for the rest of your life. It works like the Divine providence, correcting what is wrong and giving another dimension to your life.

Spider: It represents a danger that you have to discover, an obligation that you cannot postpone, something very important that you have to do, otherwise you’ll be in trouble.

Teeth Falling Out: They represent a great danger: the dreamer is losing his or her psychical energy. In other words, is making mistakes that will cost them too much and put them in a bad position.

Writing research papers involves determining your purpose. You need to limit your subject, make a useful outline and find relevant information. You need to include that information into your papers as well as acknowledge your resources. It is true that this type of custom writing can serve a lot of purposes, but the most important goal is to split existing, suitable information about the subject. Find the correct information that can include expert opinions, historical data, present theories, results of current experiments as well as statistical data.

Writing a research paper can be real challenge. This is a very time-consuming process. A certain amount of words and pages are always required. You need make sure to complete all these by a certain date. You are hereby presented with simple research paper writing tips to make the whole process a little easier.

Start working just after finding out about the assignment. Do not delay. Give yourself around one month. Keep working on the research paper most of days until it’s at least 70% done. You can take a number of notes by browsing the web or visiting a library. Focus on your outline. Write an introduction paragraph about the topic. Write your rough draft once you have completed your outline.

Make use of the spell check engine found on your PC. Make sure that the grammar, spelling, and punctuation in your paper are flawless. Complete your paper by writing a final outline.

Use relevant information to prove and strengthen the thoughts you are including in your research paper. Include resources’ titles when presenting main points. Present current ideas as well as opinions. You should include statistics and draw conclusions. When highlighting a stance by explaining an expert opinion, quotations are extremely functional.

Make sure to acknowledge all resource information in your research paper. Paraphrase or summarize information quoted at the end of the essay. The most popular research papers formats are APA and MLA, depending on the subject.

Education, which was at one time considered a local matter of the state, has been given a complete makeover in the last 30 years or so. It can be said that education today has become a national political football, where proposals come and hit it from every angle and in the end, there is nothing that seems to have been fixed. In other words, the last few years have seen the death of the great American schooling system with increased politics and less of real decision making by industry experts.

The prevailing schooling system in America needs to be addressed from several angles which include vouchers, curriculum reform, charter schools, standardized testing, and teacher accountability. These days, more importance is given to testing and the choices of educational institutes are so many, that in this crowd real education is getting undermined. In all these years, fewer efforts have been exerted in promoting a sound educational curriculum in the voucher schools and so, those who attended them, gained nothing much. The decisions in the educational system should be made by the educators and not intellectuals from the political congress.

The prevailing education system

Schools in America these days have started to function like businesses as organizations are promoting and marketing them. Public education instead, needs to be preserved and not marketed like any product. After all, it is the public education which forms the root of democracy and citizenship and grooms the young minds to live the American life.

The effect of grant programs

The top ‘philanthrocapitalists’ like Broad, Walton and Gates foundations regard their grants as investments which have the capability to pull up measurable results. Though they give training on teachers’ accountability, they are hardly scrutinized themselves thanks to their powerful interlocking grants which keeps the critics at bay. The federal government would soon swipe out the basic principles of public schooling system if it continues with its competitive grant programs. In the coming months, thousands of public school teachers will be shown the door with the falling tax revenue and increasing unemployment.

The last word

Even with this prevailing scenario, it’s not too late to change the present system of public education in America. President Barack Obama and David Axelrod should look into the situation and bring out the necessary changes and make sure that the education system is handed out to the educationalists, to whom, the matter belongs. It’s definitely not a matter of politics.

This one sounds like a no-brainer, but it means different things to different people. Many students are extremely motivated in spurts-deciding that they will work on vocal exercises for two weeks, 8 hours a day, or that they will get that impossible Whitney Houston song down by doing nothing but singing it for a month. Much more successful are the patient students who, over the course of months or years rather than days or weeks, combine practicing vocal exercises and working on a song or two every day, even if they only have time to put in 10 to 15 minutes a day. Learning to sing well is much more comparable to an endurance race than to a sprint.

It’s not that putting hours of work into a song right before an audition or performance is a waste of time. If you have a strong foundation to build on, taking a week or two to devote long hours to a song can be just what you need to make you competitive. But a few weeks of very hard work is not going to make up for years of consistent work, any more than swimming 20 hours a day for a few weeks will prepare you to be an Olympic swimmer. Like any exercise, consistent vocal exercises will slowly strengthen your voice, increase your range, and build positive muscle memory over a period of time.

2. A playful, unselfconscious, fearless attitude

At the risk of making this sound like a self-help pamphlet, I’d like to say that I can’t stress this one enough. While doing regular vocal exercises is indispensable for significant improvement, so is having fun with your practice. Your voice teacher can explain technique to you and give you music to work on, but he or she probably only sees you, at the very most, a couple of hours a week. If he is only giving you feedback based on what your voice is doing at a given moment, and not what it can do in general, his advice is necessarily limited. My most successful students play around with songs to see what their voices can do at home. Often, one of them will come in with 6 different possible ways she found to hit a note and then ask me which one I prefer. Unsurprisingly, tinkering students like this will improve faster than ones who wait for voice lessons before thinking about how they might improve a song.

It is not only playfulness, but also a certain fearlessness that these students have. No matter how talented and hard-working a student is, if she is unwilling to sound silly and make mistakes while she tries new ways to sing, it will be a long haul before she breaks out of her current habits.

3. An aptitude for listening and imitating a wide range of music

I know this one may get me in trouble with a number of voice teachers, and with good reason, so please keep reading before writing me off. Let me preface this by saying that I do not believe students should simply copy other singers. Every singer has his or her own unique tone and set of abilities. Some students will very comfortably use a chesty mix (i.e. they will sound like they are belting) up to a high Eb, while others will strain if they try to pull the chesty sound past A above middle C. Imitating another singer too closely may get you into trouble if your voice is simply built differently from that singer.